The Role of Health Psychology in Surgical Prehabilitation: Insights From REST, a Preoperative Sleep Intervention for Total Knee Replacement Patients

Findings highlighted three key stages of behaviour change that participants need to be supported in to benefit fully from prehabilitation intervention. Complex behaviour change interventions that include aspects of tailoring should consider the boundaries of acceptable adaption while maintaining core causal mechanisms, and include methods to explore real-world implementation and usability during the development process. These findings are important for surgeons and multidisciplinary teams to consider when developing new prehabilitation care pathways or when implementing evidence-based prehabilitation practices.